The most scrupulous cleanliness in all its parts should be found in the refrigerator. Food such as meat, potatoes, etc. should never be laid on the shelves of the refrigerator, and the habit of filling the ice chamber with meat, fish, fowl and vegetables is most unsanitary and unhealthful.
The Care of Food in the Refrigerator
When the food is placed on the table in the kitchen by the tradesman, the care of it at once falls upon the one who is in charge of the household and she must know just how to take care of each article.
All meat should be removed from the paper at once; wiped with a piece of cheese cloth wrung from cold water, placed on a plate, another plate turned over it and placed in the position indicated, [in frontispiece], on page 2. The butter should be put in a jar, covered and placed on the shelf of the refrigerator immediately under the ice chamber. A space should be left on this shelf for eggs, milk and cream. Cheese should be removed from the manilla paper leaving it wrapped in the wax paper, and placed in a covered vessel in the refrigerator. The care of vegetables, fruits, meats, fish, etc., follows hereinafter.
Left-Over Meats
Beef Croquettes
- 1¾ cups finely chopped left-over roast beef or steak.
- ¾ teaspoon salt.
- ¼ teaspoon pepper.
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce.
- Few drops onion juice.
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped parsley.
- Brown sauce.
Process: Remove all fat and gristle from cold roast beef or steak. Chop fine and add ingredients in the order given, moisten with thick Brown Sauce (made by increasing the quantity of flour called for in the recipe for Brown Sauce to half cup). Shape in cones, drip in crumbs, egg and crumbs and fry in deep hot fat. Serve with Brown, Tomato, or Creole Sauce.
Left-Over Roast Beef—Mexican Style
- 1 onion finely chopped.
- 2 tablespoons butter.
- 1 red pepper shredded.
- 1 green pepper shredded.
- 1 clove garlic finely chopped.
- 1 cup tomato pulp.
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce.
- ¼ teaspoon celery salt.
- Few drops Tobasco Sauce.
- Thinly sliced cold roast beef.